Hi. My name is Rick Green and I'm a curriculum developer at Oracle.
In this first of a two-part demo, I will show you how to request and activate a
trial subscription to an Oracle Cloud service.
Part 2 will show you how to administer the service
including the management of users and roles.
Before we proceed, let's pause for a moment and view a diagram of the Cloud Service Ordering workflow
so that you can get an idea of the different roles and steps for requesting,
activating, and administering an Oracle Cloud Service trial subscription.
The first step is to order a free trial subscription to an Oracle Cloud service
by clicking a try it button in the Cloud dot Oracle dot com website.
As a trial requester, you are automatically assigned the role of the
account administrator for the service.
Next, as the account administrator
you receive an automated notification email to activate the service.
In a free trial subscription, you as the requester
are also assigned the roles of service administrator and identity domain
administrator.
A key task of the identity domain administrator
is to define the user's and the user roles that will give users their access
privileges.
This is performed in a security page of the My Services application.
The identity domain administrator creates users and roles for all of the
purchased or trial cloud services.
The job with the service administrator
is to develop and administer a particular cloud service
using the My Services application. One important task is to assign roles to
each user of the cloud service.
Another task is to provide all the cloud service users
the URL to access the service. Here is a list of the 6 steps I just discussed.
This first video of the Oracle Cloud Service trial subscription process
will focus on the first three steps... Ordering
Oracle Cloud services and activating services. The second video will cover
administration of the service
including the management of users and roles. Let's go to the Cloud dot Oracle dot com
website to easily perform a self service request for a trial subscription.
Click free 30-day trial. The trials page shows a number of Oracle Cloud
services available for trial.
In this demo, we will request a trial account for the Oracle Cloud database service.
Under database click Try It.
You must have an Oracle dot com account.
Click sign in if you already have an account, otherwise click Create an
Account.
I already have an account, so I'll click Sign In.
Enter your Oracle dot com credentials
and click Sign In.
In the next set of steps, you enter your account information and agree to the terms
to request the trial subscription to the database cloud service.
Perform the following steps: First enter your account information
including name, phone number, company, and address.
Then click Next.
Next, to validate your identity for your trial request, click Request
Verification Code. A code will be sent to your mobile phone.
Enter that code in the Code Received field
and click Next.
In a trial subscription like this, Oracle signs the service name.
In paid subscriptions, you can change the service name.
You read the Terms and Conditions of the User Agreement.
You click the I understand and accept Oracle's terms and conditions checkbox.
And click Request trial. The next screen shows that your service request for a
trial subscription has been submitted.
Once your request is processed,
you will receive an email to activate your order. Open the email you receive and
click the Activate
Order button.
The Oracle Cloud My Account Application appears. You may first be prompted to enter the
username and password you used to sign up for the trial service.
A status message indicates that your trial activation
is in progress. In a short time
when your service has been activated, Oracle Cloud will send you a second
email with details about the service.
You are now ready to activate your database cloud service
using the My Services application.
In the email, click the My Services URL link.
Enter your username, password and the identity domain provided in the notification email
and click Sign In.
When you sign into your service for the first time
you are prompted to change your temporary password. Enter your temporary password in
the Password field
then enter your new password twice based on the password policy.
In addition, choose three challenge questions and provide answers for each
one
to help if you forget your password. There's a drop down menu with four
questions from which you can choose.
I type in my answer to each question, then click Submit.
My password and challenge questions were set successfully
and I am signed into the My Services applications as the account Administrator.
Here I see listing of two database trials that I ordered.
I clicked the trial database service that I wish to open.
The service details page provides detailed information for managing my
database service.
I am now ready to open the cloud database service.
I click Open Service Console.
When you open the Oracle Cloud Database service it, opens at the Application
Express home page.
I can now begin creating my database applications.
And that's it.
You've now seen how to request and activate an Oracle Cloud trial service.
I encourage you to watch Part 2 "Administering a New Oracle Cloud Service"
to learn how to administer the service including the management
users and roles.
I'm Rick Green. Thanks for watching.